The small joys at the nursery

So my friend, Sarah, and I have been trying to keep our sanity as we end work this week. Today, we luckily had the privilege of working together, which it was nice to have some comic relief as we struggled to survive the back-breaking job of pruning plants that are only one foot off of the ground. To keep our minds off of the pain and from looking at our watches, we laughed about making a nursery version of the movie The Village- there is a forest nearby, sections of red plants, weird noices.....What do you guys think? We also played a game using the order of the alphabet to think of words that described "college life" and later "cafeteria food." Some of our creative words were "unknown food" - it was common to sit down at a meal and not know exactly what you were eating - and "luckycharms" - the favorite cereal, the word spread fast whenever it was available. When I was trying to think of a "x" word for cafeteria food, surprise, surprise, the sprinklers turned on all around our location. We stood up, screamed, looked at each other, grabbed our buckets full of the cuttings, and tried to make it thru the maze of plants to the gravel road. However, it was a while before we were safe from the spray of water, so I was a great friend and tried to use Sarah's body to block me from the water....however, she always seemed to move just in time and I still got soaked. The cold water was a nice shock after absorbing the sun's rays for hours. After wandering back into civilization (the nursery's shipping center), we were given another job - actually the funnest one so far :o) Now, instead of being bent over, we were having to reach up high to trim small trees that were as tall as we were. We affectionately named them - the sissy trees - or - the poodle palm trees. The trunks of the trees are about the size of a quarter and have no branches all the way up for about 5 feet - then at the very top there is a small bundle of branches - forming a ball of leaves on top - about 1 foot in diameter. Sarah and I felt we were trimming people's hairs - or dancing with the sissy trees - because one hand was usually holding onto the trunk, as the other was cutting the overgrown branches. And now....the funniest conversation of the day went something like: me: Ahhh. I have to stop watching TV after work for so long. (i haven't had a lot of energy lately after working 8 hours at the nursery) Sarah: (nods her head and keeps cutting away) me: especially since in Alaska they don't have TV Sarah: NO TV!!!! (shocked, horrified expression) me: Are they even ALIVE? (making humor out of the thoughts running thru sarah's head) Sarah: (laughs) Are they even alive... (i guess you had to be there :o) I then explained to sarah that I only ment my sister kimber and her husband ben did not have TV in Alaska - she had interpreted my words for "TV has not been invented in the state of Alaska." I had to laugh pretty hard after that :o) Thanks for the good laughs Sarah - i'll definitely be thinking about you while I'm in Alaska with no TV :o) One more day at the nursery! Pretty soon, i'll be experiencing the wild west of Alaska.